Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1990, 55, 1127-1131
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19901127
Conversion of bilirubin by transfer of electronic excitation energy generated in the presence of human methemoglobin
Zdeněk Pavlíček and Hana Hájková
Department of Physical Chemistry, Charles University, 128 42 Prague 2
Abstract
The conversion of bilirubin into colourless products has been induced by transfer of electronic excitation energy and followed spectrophotometrically. The triplet excitation energy was generated by oxidation of 2-methylpropanal with oxygen in solution under catalytic action of human methemoglobin. A slower kinetics of transformation of bilirubin via this "photochemical reaction without light" has been observed for the bilirubin bound to human albumin as compared with the bilirubin alone.
